Hi,

I've 2 PII PC w/ P2L97 motherboard, Maxtor HD (Maxtor DiamondMAX VL40 &
model 91080D5 HD in each respectively) & XP Home installed. I used them
to download books & movie files from internet. I want to burn the
downloaded files to DVD immediately after the download so I intend to
install DVD-writer drive in these PCs (now I use CD-RW drive).

Below are some DVD models I found :

BenQ DW1625
LG GSA-4163B
LITEON 1673S, 1653S, 1633S
AOpen DUW1616L
ASUS E616A (no comments found here)
Artec VOM-12E48X

However, I'm quite concern that if all of these are compatible with my
PC H/W & OS configuration because many of them requires PIII CPU.

Can somebody suggest if these models can be used with my PC ?

PS: I've one Althon 1700+ PC too but I don't PREFER to use it for
burning DVD purpose because this is my main working PC.

Pioneer 110D will give you less trouble than any of the ones you mentioned



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"come_mon_come_mon!" <come_mon_come_mon@yahoo.com.hk> wrote in message
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I have a p3 550MHz using win98se with the lg burner that you mention and
have no problems despite the hardware requirements on the box exceeding my
specs, I can write to dvd's at 16 times speed. You don't mention the MHz
rating of your cpu, if it is 450MHz or faster I think you will probably be
ok although the speed of your harddrive may affect performance if it was one
of the first 40GB drives to come out, I have a 27Gb drive and have no
problems.

"come_mon_come_mon!" <come_mon_come_mon@yahoo.com.hk> wrote in message
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burning at slower speeds, those older machines are fine. Many of the
bundled apps have video processing/editing suites, that run at a snails pace
on those older machines...

The box for my LG GSA-4163B says "Minimum system
requirements CPU: Pentium III 700MHz or higher"

come_mon_come_mon! wrote:

On 9 Nov 2005 11:15:08 -0800, "come_mon_come_mon!"
<come_mon_come_mon@yahoo.com.hk> wrote:

Place the DVD burner in your good PC. The Pentium II might not be fast
enough to burn at 8X but this depends on the PC itself. If you do
place the DVD burner in the Pentium II set the burn speeds at 4X.

On your list of DVD burners I'd get the LG 4163 which is one of the
best drives around.

These drives require at least a Pentium III of about 700 to 800 MHz.
This is more to do with video capture than anything else. These drives
often come with software that can capture, then author and then burn.

I think you'll be happier having the burner in your faster system.
Plus your old system may not have a very big hard drive. You need
10Gb of free hard drive space before any DVD burn as there are
loads of temp files created before any DVD burn.

Try and get Nero Suite 3 with the DVD burner which is only an extra
$10 or there abouts. It has the DVD burning plus NeroVision which is a
very good program for authoring with. Will convert AVI to DVD with its
faster codec but speed of conversion depends on the speed of computer.
I would not even try it on the older Pentium II system.

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The CPU usage to burn at 8X is minor on a P3/600, I doubt you even need 200Mhz.

Ignore the hardware requirements, that is for Mpeg-2 software bundled with the drive.

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Yep that is what I found also, strange that the manufacturers would put so
many people off buying their product by specifying min specs that only apply
to certain software video processing tasks rather than having anything to do
with the burner itself.


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Falco 写�：

What trouble ? Can you give more information ?

My 2 PII PC have below config

PC1: PII 266MHz + 128x3 MB PC-100 RAM + 1 Maxtor model 91080D5 HD w/
10GB size + 1 Memorex 52x32x52 CD-Rewritable drive + XP Home OS

PC2: PII 333MHz + 128x2 MB PC-100 RAM + 1 Maxtor DiamondMAX VL40 HD w/
20GB size + 1 52x CD-ROM + XP Home OS

I seldomly use video processing or editing applications & I would use
my faster Althon PC to do the task if I need.

The burning speed is not a concern for me so long as the burnt out DVD
can play at its normal speed in other PC e.g. in my faster Althon PC.
My PII PCs were dedicated for download and CD burning purpose now. I
just don't want to copy the downloaded files to another PC for further
processing (another issue was I cound the LAN connection between my PCs
ALL w/ XP installed were not working normally although I'm sure the
connecting hub & LAN cables had no problem).

If the drives require PIII just because of video capture / authoring
function then it's OK for me because I seldomly use them. I just afraid
even DVD burning function will need a PIII class CPU.

10GB free space is of no problem because one of my PC (PC2 mentioned
above) had 20GB disk space. For PC1 which had 10GB disk space, I can
keep the CD Rewritable drive there cos not all files downloaded need to
be burnt on DVD.

If I've an old PIII PC, I won't raise there question here. I just don't
want to throw away my old PII PCs just because I want to burn DVD.

So if I keep using P2 266 or P2 333 w/ 128x2 MB RAM, I can still burn
DVD with some of above DVD drives ?

What functions you mentioned MPEG-2 software serve ? Are they video
processing / authoring function mentioned by Biz ?

Your Pentium 2 PCs are more than adequate to burn a DVD with any of the drives mentioned if they are configured properly, i.e. DMA enabled.
A software MPEG2 player requires about a 400 Mhz processor. Video editing / authoring can require a much faster processor and more memory unless you have a lot of patience.

"come_mon_come_mon!" wrote:
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West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

On 9 Nov 2005 22:32:28 -0800, "come_mon_come_mon!"
<come_mon_come_mon@yahoo.com.hk> wrote:

110d is a lemon. Don't get that model.
Is a crap drive. Get a lg or earlier pioneer over this piece of shit.
110d burns to slowly at nearly 7 minutes where the previous models its
2 minutes faster. I found my 110d caused many burn failures. I was
told to wait for firmware but that did not even help, made matters
worse. If you do get the 110d you are limited to a few brands or wait
and wait and wait for pioneer to correct it with firmware.

Falco wrote:
Don't get lumped with the 110D - get the 110.

Wm. B. wrote:
That refers to the bundled software and not what the drive itself
requires. Some DVD boxes specify P4 2.4GHz because of the bundled video
editing software.

i was looking at benq 1640 i have 128 mb of ram and a 20gb harddrive
can i run a dvd burner even though i have a p3 550.

I've just got an updated list of available DVD Rewritable drives of my
city (much more complete than my spot check observation at shops near
my living place). Could someone give me recommended models for each of
below PC configuration please ? I'll focus on quality & performance
issues here first (exclude price issue).

PC-A
Althon 1700+ CPU + 256MB RAM + Maxtor 60GB HD (Model 6L06033) + XP
Professional OS (consider video playing, processing & editing here)

PC-B
PII 266MHz + 128x3 MB PC-100 RAM + 1 Maxtor model 91080D5 HD w/ 10GB
size + XP Home OS (mainly used for burning DVD here)

DVD Rewritables list

AOpen DUW1608/ARR DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
DUW1616/ARR DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
ASUSTek DRW-1608P DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
DRW-1608P2 DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
DRW-1608P2S DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
BenQ DW1625 DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
DW1640 Internal / DVD±RW / Internal
Gigabyte GO-W1616A DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
DVD740I DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
HP DVD WRITER 640I DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
LG Electronics GSA-4082B DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
GSA-4163B DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
GSA-4165B DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
GSA-4166B DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
GSA-4167B DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
LITEON SHW-1635S DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
SOHW-1653S DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
SOHW-1693S DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
NEC ND-1100 DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
ND-3540 DVD+RW / Internal / IDE
ND-3550 DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
ND-4550 DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
Panasonic SW-9585 DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
Pioneer DVR-110 DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
DVR-110D DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
DVR-A09XLA DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
DVR-A09XLB DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
DVR-A09XLC DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
DVR-A10XLA DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
DVR-A10XLB DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
DVR-A10XLC DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
Samsung SE-W164C DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
SH-W162C DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
TS-H552U DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
Sony DRU-800A DVD±RW / Internal / IDE
Toshiba SD-R5372 DVD±RW / Internal / IDE